Buried? Feds to release major climate report day after Thanksgiving

The federal government will release a major climate change report – Volume II of the National Climate Assessment – on Black Friday, typically one of the slowest news days of the year.

“It’s an absolute disgrace to bury the truth about climate impacts in a year that saw hundreds of Americans die during devastating climate-fueled megafires, hurricanes, floods, and algal blooms,” said National Wildlife Federation president Collin O’Mara in a statement.

Volume II isexpected to detail a range of current and future climate change impacts and again warn that the Earth is warming, humans are the cause, and the already serious impacts – such as the current California wildfires – are only going to get worse, Climate Central said.

The new report should also have more of a regional focus, as demand rises for more local information on risks and consequences, saidBernadette Woods Placky, chief meteorologist at Climate Central.